adjective
having the deep slightly brownish color of gold
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- long aureate (or golden) hair
- a gold carpet
adjective
based on pretense
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- deceptively pleasing
- the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility
- meretricious praise
- a meretricious argument
adjective
ostentatiously rich and superior in quality
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- a princely sum
- gilded dining rooms
- these architecture magazines are full of the lush interiors of the rich and famous
adjective
made from or covered with gold
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- gold coins
- the gold dome of the Capitol
- the golden calf
- gilded icons
verb
decorate with, or as if with, gold leaf or liquid gold
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